[Python-Dev] Survey on DVCS usage and experience

[Brian de Alwis]

On 28-May-09, at 9:35 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:02:57PM -0600, Brian de Alwis wrote:
>
>> With Python having recently chosen to switch to Mercurial, I hoped
>> that any developers who've used a DVCS (and who are over 18 years
>> old) might like to participate in our survey and share your
>
> Just curious. Why is this age restriction?  You might miss out few
> key developers...

It's a restriction required to obtain approval from our research  
ethics board -- people under 18 are considered to be minors in Canada  
and thus require the consent of their guardian to participate. Trying  
to obtain such permission for an anonymous survey is a bit difficult!   
Although we could work around this guardian-consent issue in theory,  
doing so would require jumping through several additional hoops in the  
ethics process and would take significantly more time.

Brian.